Example sentences of "less than their [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values . |
| 2 | Highly qualified medical men , now earning significantly less than their ambulance drivers , are leaving the much vaunted health care system in droves , looking for jobs ( sometimes two or three ) which offer a passport to at least temporary insolvency . |
| 3 | Bills of exchange : These are short-term debt instruments , i.e. claims , issued mainly by corporations and the government , purchased by the bank at less than their face value . |
| 4 | In origin a feudal revenue , this was the right of the King to buy household supplies at less than their market price . |
| 5 | Additionally , people who can say in advance that their income will be less than their tax allowances can register to receive their interest gross . |
| 6 | They were humiliated with a day and a half to spare by an innings and 182 runs — just 18 runs less than their record loss against Yorkshire in 1938 . |
| 7 | But how far , even as an occasional visitor , could he isolate himself from the community , from their private tragedies no less than their dinner parties ? |